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theturtletalks 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Coding agents could make free software matter agai...

5 years ago, I set out to build an open-source, interoperable marketplace powered by open-source SaaS. It felt like a pipe dream, but AI has made the dream into fruition. People are underestimating how much AI is a threat to rent seeking middlemen in every industry.

try-working 3 months ago [–]

You never get rid of the middleman. You become them.

theturtletalks 3 months ago | [–]

If that middleman is open-source and simply interops with SaaS that itself is open-source, there simply is no moat to exploit.

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